His subjects, often deceptively simple on the surface, dealt in their most-serious moments with the theme of human struggle within an indifferent universe.
In a strange way, even though Appropriate Behaviour is, on the surface, dealing with issues ostensibly more niche than in Girls (specifically, coping with a traditional Iranian family while being bisexual), it feels more universal, perhaps because struggles with sex and family are more common than the travails of being a middle-class white woman in Brooklyn.
The more serious story lying under the surface deals with the pangs of early adulthood.
These included wading deep water, ascending steep gradients with loose surfaces, dealing with high angles of departure and attack and soaking up a lot of punishment from wheel-swallowing potholes and big sharp rocks.
The world of math, to use one of his favorite metaphors, is made up of different continents, seemingly isolated from one another: Number theory is about the properties of numbers, harmonic analysis is concerned with the properties of wave functions, the study of Riemann surfaces deals with the geometries of two-dimensional manifolds, and so on.
Tel Aviv-based Pounce, a mobile shopping app that surfaces deals from retailers, as well as a way to shop print ads and catalogs from your smartphone, has been acquired by visual search company Slyce for $5 million in shares, cash and earn-out incentives.
On the surface, the deal makes some sense.
On its surface, the deal would appear certain to raise antitrust concern.
On the surface, the deal seems to benefit The Observer more.
On the surface, the deal is consistent with Turner's world-diplomacy principle — "Just about everybody will be friendly toward us if we are friendly with them".
